Power, Employment and Accumulation : Social Structures in Economic Theory and Policy

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Power, Employment, and Accumulation -- Part I: Power, Work, and Distribution -- 2 Skill Mismatch, Bureaucratic Burden, and Rising Earnings Inequality in the U.S.: What Do Hours and Earnings Trends by Occupation Show? -- 3 Voluntary Downshifting in the 1990s -- 4 The Future of Egalitarian Politics -- Part II: Power and the Macroeconomy -- 5 Conflict, Distribution, and Finance in Alternative Macroeconomic Traditions -- 6 Macroeconomic Performance and Labor Market Discrimination -- Part III: Power and the Global Economy -- 7 Social Structures and Economic Mobility: What's Really at Stake? -- 8 Institutions and the Persistence of Global Inequalities -- 9 Engendering the Economics of Globalization: Sites and Processes -- 10 Capital Market Crises: Liberalization, Fixed Exchange Rates, and Market-Driven Destabilization -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.